Insulation is hanging down from the wide-open ceiling in the apartment where Patricia Chapman and her daughters live, and Chapman cannot afford the motel where they are now stuck. CBS 2’s Sabrina Franza reports.

Great to have you with us I'm Joe Donley And I'm Erica Sergeant barely any of the Ceiling left in this far North Suburban Home a family had to leave when a pipe Burst on Christmas Eve and they still Can't return CBS 2's Sabrina Franza has Been looking into why that is and how to Get that family home when she joins us Live now from Round Lake Beach with a Story you'll see only on two Sabrina Joe Erica we've been seeing construction Workers and contractors here today Carrying drywall and insulation to other Apartments but not to Patricia Chapman's As you said she's been out of her home Since Christmas Eve after that pipe Burst and she hasn't heard from Management at all until today As a mom it feels Patricia Chapman feel Very helpless right now surveys the Damage the pipe broke on Christmas Eve That pipe ruined Christmas coming back To a flood instead of presence under her Tree we could not see anything you could Just hear and feel The squish of the carpet the water Swept Away more than that seven years ago After the birth of her now 17 year old And before her sixth and one-year-old Came along Chapman was homeless and they Don't know what's worse because the Hotel brings up a lot of like Uh Not having a home to begin with she says

She asks for a hotel voucher to help pay For the stay this is all pretty much the Toys my kids have 500 a week at a motel Is more than her monthly rent they just Keep telling me to be patient And wait and they've got contractors They told me last Friday the contractors Come in this week nobody's been here we Reached out to management who told us 13 Units had the same issue they claim they Offered each tenant the option to move Into another temporary unit which Chapman says is not true it wasn't until We asked about a hotel voucher that Management considered offering there's No installation here there's nothing you Can see the ceiling to the other Side because for Chapman who's paying For their Motel using GoFundMe I'm Grateful like for today and tonight we Can stay in the hotel but honestly like It's looking like we're coming back here Tomorrow because the cost is too great To stay another day Coming up at six you'll hear our Conversation with Chapman's management Company and a possible Solution on how She might be able to get compensation And stay safe until she can get home We're live at Round Lake Beach Sabrina Franza CBS 2 news thank you Sabrina

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